During the MAPS 3 Trails and Sidewalks subcommittee meeting yesterday morning, MAPS staff told subcommittee members that out of 131 alignments for city sidewalks, the program would be able to build an estimated 31 of those, spread out over two phases and at a cost of $6.8 million in MAPS 3 funds. The entire project […]
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Shift happens
The council narrowly approved a recommended and somewhat controversial project timeline for the MAPS 3 projects, and later approved a recommended site just south of the Myriad Gardens for the MAPS 3 Convention Center. However, Ward 2 Councilman Ed Shadid, who was critical of the timeline when it was first brought up, was not in […]
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Timeline on the table
The Oklahoma City Council likely will be presented Tuesday with a new MAPS 3 timeline, one of several that emerged over the past few months. The MAPS 3 Citizens Advisory Board, which only has authority to make recommendations to City Council, voted 6-2 at its May 26 meeting to send the timeline for the council’s […]
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Convention-centric
The subcommittee unanimously selected the site, located at the former Bob Howard Downtown Ford dealership, after several members attacked a consultant’s report on site costs, with subcommittee member Larry Nichols calling it “nonsense.” Meanwhile, under a timeline approved by the convention center subcommittee, almost every other large-scale MAPS 3 project would be pushed back to […]
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Drafting MAPS
Meanwhile, despite the convention center subcommittee’s decision to rule out a site that would have required the city to purchase and move an OGE substation, the city could end up doing that anyway, and has $30 million in MAPS 3 funds — three times the amount set aside for sidewalks — budgeted for that purpose. […]